Mid-Atlantic Needs THREE Pilots Now

[BaronFR8Dog]

I know we have three openings. One in Pasco, WA which flys to Seattle/Boeing. Abiline which flys to Dallas Love and Lansing MI which flys to Detroit. This is a GOOD company which treats you well and has good benefits. Planes are top notch, well maintained and equipped.

Each run overnights in the destination city and pilots stay in a hotel until the next morning when you fly back to the origin city. Expect to fly 600-1000 hours per year depending on the run. All Caravan time.

Pay if fair, $95 per day to start and goes up from there. Benefits after three months. You must sign a 1-year, $4600 training contract and I believe relocation is at your own expense. Get your resume and an enthusiastic cover letter in to Genesa Jackson at [email protected].

This is a GOOD company to work for!

GOOD LUCK!

 

[FN FAL]

based on 95 bucks a day... and looking at my run...that would total out to 12,000 a year.

 

[RideTheWind]

If it were a great company I think they would treat their pilots better than a $25,000. pilot, how does one expect to live on that salary, all of the FedEx feeders start their pilots at a minimum of $125. a day, $33.000. At that salary you don't have to make someone sign a 1 year contract because everyone stays a lot longer than 1 year, if you treat your pilots with respect (a descent salary) they will work harder and want to stay for longer than a year.

 

[SW4guy]

Mid Atlantic is a shady operation. I have a friend there and he is not happy there at all. They make him j/s to other locations to fill in for sick calls and vacations. And if your run gets canceled before your one year contract, you are still required to pay them or move your whole family to a different location on your own dime. I would rather do the fedex feeder.

 

[airspeed]

MAF

Mid Atlantic is the worst company I have ever worked for. Their owner Don Godwin is a real scumbag and a homo. The pay crap, and treat their pilots the same way. Stay away like its the plague!

 

[BaronFR8Dog]

SW4, You are full of crap. The ONLY people who cover vacations and sick pilots are the two floaters of which I am one. Why would they take a pilot off a run to cover another pilot leaving HIS run open? Duh! And this company has not had a run cancelled in ages so that is a LIE about losing your job and having to pay your contract out.

Sounds to me like you are a disgruntled ex-pilot fired from MAF who could not hack the job. In fact I think I may know who you are.

It's always "I have a firend...."

Thanks for playing.

 

[wingnutt]

you forgot to mention the part about their new ownership

 

[GCD]

BaronFR8Dog,

Does the company encourage you to use jumpseats to position for sick calls?

 

[BaronFR8Dog]

GCD,

Not really. Every time I have had to get somewhere fast they have bought me an airline ticket. We only have jumpseat privelidges with Southwest and they don't fly everywhere we need to go. I've only actually jumpseated once for company business but many more times for personal travel.

Mid-Atlantic is a GOOD place to work! They treat us very well and provide us with newer, SAFE airplanes, very well equipped. When I am in a base city they put me in nice hotels with a rental car and pay for all the gas. If I choose to drive to my assignment, which I do if it's 500 miles or less, they pay the IRS rate of $0.36 per mile. Pay is fair but could definitely be better.

BFD

 

[justmeinmsp]

It is illegal to jumpseat for any company business. That sort of thing puts the jumpseat in jeopardy for everyone. Don't do it!! If it is company business, they should buy a ticket, EVERYTIME.

 

[GCD]

BaronFR8Dog,

Using another airline's jumpseat for your company's business violates to basic intent of jumpseat offering. If a captain ever finds out that you are using his jumpseat for your company's business, and not for your own commuting travel, he may ruin your day. It's possible that you and other pilots with your company may be banned from future jumpseats.

I understand that you are young and eager, but learn the business. There are some on this forum willing to shoot you down very quickly. However, there are many more of us willing to help you learn the business.

 

[BaronFR8Dog]

GCD,

Eager, yes. Young, I wish. I'm 41 and didn't get my commercial until I was 39 so yes, I am on the same career level as those 15 years younger. This job is my first experience having jumpseat priveliges.

Please clarify something. When I said that I used Southwest for "company business" that one time, I mean that I simply flew from home to the city in which I was to work the next day. I see pilots jumpseating all the time on airlines going to duty stations or home from a tour, so is that what you mean by "your own commuting travel." I have had captains I checked in with make small talk with me and ask "going home or going to work." I've answered both ways with no problems.

Thanks!

 

[SabreFlyR]

I can see your point especially if you live away from the home base-GSO, but they should still buy the ticket to report to a work assignment and the ticket home at the end of that assignment. If you traveled back and forth between the beginning and the end then it would be legit to use the jumpseat.

No I am not a disgruntled former employee. I spent a few years there long ago and I know that most of that management team has now gone on to bigger and better things also. But the standard operating procedure then, especially for out based crews to come to GSO for recurrent training was to "try and jumpseat and if you can't we'll buy the ticket".
You could always tell when a recurrent class was going to start, several of us would always show up in uniform passing thru CLT trying to jumpseat our way to GSO.

I sure hope you guys make more money than we did then, I remember having to do all that D@mn loading by ourselves on the Airborne and UPS runs. IT SUCKED! But the maintenance was great then also, nothing went unfixed more than a day or so.
As for working there, never had a problem, like being based away from GSO, never heard from anyone other than talking to the dispatchers.

 

[CapnMatt]

BaronFR8Dog, did you work at FLX?

 

[BaronFR8Dog]

Matt, yes I did and it made a man out of me and put hair on my chest. Is this the Matt I talked to a few weeks ago? Former 420? I was 803.

 

[GCD]

Commuting to and from work or home is one of the purposes of the jumpseat, so no problem there. It is when the company needs to move you around for their business, and they ask you to use a jumpseat: that is a problem.

I saw two pilots trying to get from DAL to AMA so one could give a checkride to the other. That was for their company, not personal commuting use. What's worse, is I was trying to get to AMA for my grandmother's funeral, and the two boneheads were trying to force me out of the jumpseat. The SWA captain simply told them to go buy tickets, and I got my ride to AMA.